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Networking Lunch
No full textThetas and Etas will sit together at lunch and use scripted table conversation cards at each table to learn more about one another. Etas as the “senior” class will use this time to mentor new Thetas and answer important questions during this networking lunch. Share Business Cards, email addresses and “make a colleague for life”
The Most Effective Coaching and Professional Development Activities Utilized to Coach Principals toward Exemplary Leadership and Positively Impact Student Outcomes: A Mixed-Method Delphi Study
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the principal coaching and/or professional development activities that expert high school principals experienced that helped them to achieve expert status, i.e. exemplary leadership, and positively impact student outcomes, to rate the effectiveness of the identified activities as reported by the exemplary principals, and to identify the recommendations of the expert principals for the implementation of the top five coaching and/or professional development activities that can be utilized to coach other high school principals toward expert status, i.e. exemplary leadership, and positively impact student outcomes.
Methodology: The Delphi methodology was used for this study. The study consisted of a series of surveys administered in three rounds with the first intending to identify the activities experienced by the expert panel members that facilitated their ascension to “expert status,” i.e. exemplary leaders. The second round allowed the expert panel to rank the effectiveness of this data and identify the top five most effective activities experienced by the panel. The third round allowed the expert panel to provide recommendations on how a school district could best implement these top strategies moving forward.
Findings: In Round 1, there were 12 distinct principal coaching and/or professional development activities experienced by the expert panel. During the second round, five of those activities were identified as being extremely effective. Lastly, the expert panel provided 18 suggestions for districts to consider when implementing or enhancing principal coaching and/or development programs.
Conclusions: There were three major conclusions. The first revolved around providing well organized professional development specifically designed to target leadership characteristics and support district initiatives. The second conclusion identified the need to provide mentoring by prior administrators. The last conclusion targeted the need for districts to create principal professional learning communities.
Recommendations: There were six recommendations for future research provided in order to further the research around best practices to coach and/or professionally develop school principals
Using Lifestyle Educational Intervention to Decrease Blood Pressure Reading Amongst African American Adults
No full textHypertension or high blood pressure is a global epidemic and a major public health challenge in the United States. Hypertension increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and renal failure. The disease disproportionately affects African Americans (AAs) and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in this ethnic group. Effective management of hypertension decreases complications from the disease. The purpose of the clinical scholarly project (CSP) was to decrease blood pressure readings amongst AA adults, ages 18 to 65 years old using educational intervention on lifestyle modifications. A convenience sampling of 20 AA (n = 20) adult participants was drawn from the African Catholic Ministry (ACM) which is a subgroup within the Catholic Charismatic Center (CCC). The principal investigator (PI) used a patient educational brochure to teach participants about modifiable risk factors and healthy lifestyle behaviors aimed at decreasing participants’ blood pressure readings within a 4-week period. Participants received a pre-intervention and post-intervention blood pressure checks. The findings of the project indicate that patient educational intervention on lifestyle was effective in significantly decreasing blood pressure readings among AAs with hypertension (p \u3c .05). The limitations of the study include that participants were recruited through convenience sampling and there was no random assignment in the project
CR 10: Big Interview
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